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During the early days of trade unions, especially ones that represented workers in large industries, dangerous conflicts were sometimes part of a union strike. Businesses were known to hire "strike breakers" to fight with workers on union picket lines and try to intimidate strikers. This certainly had to affect the expansion of unions to industries not yet unionized.

The conflicts abated when State and Federal governments passed laws to protect union workers. The Federal government established agencies to help mediate union and management problems.

In time industries began to see that violence was not the answer to strikes. Meaningful negotiations between management & unions held sway.

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